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G. MEACOM.

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' HOSE.

Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

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- yNiTEin STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MEACOM, OF CHELSEA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO PETER IV. FRENCH, TRUSTEE, OF VEYMOUTH, MASS.

HOSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,222, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed December G, 1886. Serial No. 220,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MEACOM, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose, of which the following is a specification.

I am aware that it is not new to form hose composed of a plurality of plies consisting of separate and distinct tubes, and wherein the to outer ply is composed of warps and wefts of wire, and that it is also old to form a suctionhose composed of a multiply india-rubber `and cloth tube and an interlocking'knitted tube having a helically-arranged wire weft, int 5 terlocked by text-ile threads, and an external fibrous tube, and I therefore make no claim to these structures, but confine myself to the structure herein shown and described, wherein the hose-tube is composed of a single piece 2o or strip of woven textile fabric having wires woven therein at suitable intervals, the whole treatedor frictioned with caoutchouc or rubber cement to hold the eonvolutions of fabric together as one compact mass or body, the wires being thus distributed throughout the structure of the body in each convolution of the same.

In addition lo the advantages of strength and flexibility, my hose is easily and cheaply 3o manufactured.

My invention consists of a hose formed of eonvolutions of a single piece or strip of textile fabric having fine wires woven therein at intervals and treated with caoutchouc or similar material in the usual way.

Reference is to be had lo the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, similar letters indicating similar parts 4o -in all of the views.

Of the drawings, Figure l is a portion of a fabric from which my improved hose is constructed. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a slight modification in the structural character Fig. 3 isa perspective view of a short section of rubber-lined hose formed from the fabric represented in Fig. l, a portion of the fabric being shown as unrolled. Fig. et is an end view of a rubber-lined hose 5o made from the fabric shown in Fig. 2.

In the manufacture of hose of the class upon (No model.)

which my improvements have-been wrought,

a textile fabric of the character commonly known as canvas7 or duck is treated with caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or rubber cement, by coating or frictioning one surface thereof with such material when the fabric is rolled into the form of a tube, the frictioning material serving to cement and hold the convolutions of fabric together as one compact mass or body. Hose thus constructed are also commonly lined with rubber in a way wellunderstood by those skilled in the hose-making art.

One of the difficulties met within the manufacture of hose of this class is that of securing u the requisite strength with lightness of weight and necessary flexibility in nature. It is the aim of my invention to overcome this difficulty, as I will now proceed to explain.

In Fig. l a represents a textile fabric, into which is woven at regular intervals, as wefts, strands of fine flexible wire b, (shown in full lines,) the dotted lines being designed to represent the warps and wefts of' cotton, linen, hemp, or the like. This fabric is coated or frictioned with rubber cement or similar material, as hereinbefore described, and rolled into a hose-tube, as shown in Fig. 8, in such manner that the wefts of wire b will run therearound, as shown. c indicates a lining, ofrubber or similar material, which may or may not be used, as desired.

In addition to weavinginto the fabric strands of wire as wefts in the manner described, I may also employ wire warps d, at regular in- 8;, tervals throughout the fabric, as shown in Fig. 2, which, when the fabric is formed into a hose-tube, will run lengthwise thereof, as shown in Fig. 4, and serve to still further strengthen the hose.

By my improvements a hose-tube can be made very light and fiexible, and at the same time sufficiently strong to withstand any pressure to which it need be subjected, and the bursting so frequently occurring in hose of 95 this class as heretofore constructed is avoided.

I am aware that it is not new toincorporate strands of metal or wireinto knitted and woven hose, and therefore do not broadly make claim thereto, but confine myself to the struct-ure of IOO hose herein shown and described.

What I claim is- An improved hose or flexible tubing having In testimony whereof l have signed my name 1o the body portion thereof composed of convo- I to this specification, in the presence of tWo sublutions of a single piece or strip of textile fabsoribing Witnesses, this 8th day of November,

rio treated or friotioned with caoutchouc or 1886.

rubber cement, and having strands of leXible Wire Woven therein at suitable intervals throughout its struetu re, Constructed and eonu- Vitnesses: bined substantially as and for the purposes ARTHUR XV. CROSSLEY, hereinbefore set forth. l

GEORGE MEACOM.

A. D. HARRISON. 

